my Student Teaching Expecations
Student teaching is a huge step up from just learning about how to teach children because we actually are in charge of their education. I don’t think I have ever been so nervous and excited for something in my life. Of course, just like any other new journey, I am going into this experience with many expectations and worries. The fact that I am joining these classes halfway through their school year worries me because they have their classroom community and I am the new member. I just hope that I am welcomed and taken seriously by both the students and the surrounding classroom communities as a respected future teacher. I hope to bring new ideas to the classes I am joining, as well as learn a lot myself on how to really create my own teaching style and continuously improve on it each day I am there.
While at my student teaching placements, I hope to learn more about differentiating my lesson plans based off the students in the class. Since I am in an actual class now teaching my lessons I need to be able to incorporate all the students learning styles into every lesson that I teach because I want them all to grasp whatever it is I am teaching. In the past we have always just written lesson plans and made up the demographics we were teaching to, now the students are real as well as their learning styles. It is my job to recognize how they learn and differentiate the work so they feel comfortable enough to complete it, however challenging enough so they feel a sense of accomplishment after learning. This is going to be a difficult task; however I feel that with the help of my cooperating teacher, I will be able to accomplish this.
There is a lot about management that I have to learn from my cooperating teacher such as setting up the classroom so it works for both me and my students, managing my time throughout the day so I am able to accomplish everything that I need to and planning for the whole week including any tests and assignments that will be included. I hope that I am able to really build my own management style based off of both my cooperating teachers’ ideas, however tweak them to make them my own.
I really have a lot of expectations for my student teaching experience. I want feedback from my students so that I can become the best teacher possible. I want to leave this semester having an idea of what my own teaching style will be so that I can continue developing it as time goes on. I am just excited for this whole experience and hope to be welcomed into both my student teaching placements with open arms because this is the biggest part of my college education.